Unverified Voracity Asks Why

Why? There are certain things that burn themselves into your brain and never leave. These are unusual events, like a punt return touchdown against Ohio State or your brother setting his pillow on fire. Usually they don't involve charts:

What is this a chart of? Rick Reilly's dental jokes per year. It is part of an extensive article by Josh Levin that contains perhaps the most pointless project ever undertaken by man:

I… what do you even say? I spend my life dissecting college football in minute detail and at some point I laughed out loud and asked "why? why would you do this?" One thousand cocktails to Levin.

Basketballin'. Michigan-Maryland at 7:30 tonight on ESPNU, which no one gets. I assume someone will ask for streaming info on the board and someone else will provide it, so if you're like most of America and don't have ESPNU you can watch it on the computer.

Assuming Michigan doesn't get any additional Savannah State-like scares from the smaller teams on the schedule, the upcoming game against Maryland looms as perhaps the biggest of the year. Win and you're likely to hit the conference schedule with just two losses, both to Duke, and the scalps of Maryland and UCLA. A .500 conference record probably gets Michigan in the tourney. Lose and you're probably going to have to go 10-8, which seems doubtful.

Coach rotation? Brian Kelly is staying at UC? And they're renovating Nippert* Stadium? Charlie Weis is staying at Notre Dame? Is anyone hiring, firing, or accepting a coaching job going to make a decision that makes sense this year?

On the Weis thing: as mentioned, I'm torn. Weis has recruited a ton of talent over the past two years (his first real class has mostly washed out, with a number of four-star guys transferring) and eventually you figure Notre Dame is going to get results from it. Better to have Weis in charge than someone who's demonstrated an aptitude for anything other than recruiting, I guess. And if they struggle to 8-4 next year you'd have to imagine it will be tough for a coaching staff on terribly shaky ground to bring in more guys.

OTOH, Weis getting canned might have gotten Michigan a recruit or two and accelerated a critical building process as Rodriguez tries to stay ahead of the executioner's axe. And I generally root for chaos at rivals because unstable programs are bad ones, consistently. If Brian Kelly isn't an option there are precious few available coaches who strike me as fearsome. There's no Urban out there, and programs like Tennessee are reaching for guys like Lane Kiffin. Maybe next year someone will emerge.

I feel we all should be migrating to At&t or a dish of some sort. When comcast loses money they make a change. They are what you call a blood sucking Conglomerate , that cares only for the bottom line. Not who they serve or why... not who I'm giving the few dollars I have a month too... And I'm a lil nervous about the coaching search B. The man is an idiot granted, he did fire some of the best Coordinators in college football (Stoop:wr, English:defensive coordinator) in the name of loyalty idiotic. This year the D was suspect all year with virtually the same players from the year before. The wide receivers were droppers, ran poor routes and we softee with an extra e. He had no clue, not the faintest idea what Michigan Football is to the city of A2, the state of Michigan, the sport of college football, and Alumni on this planet and beyond... Its called the Michigan Difference, unmatched, unrivaled, without comparison. A Michigan man doesn't pass the buck, the blame to pervious coaches, he takes responsibility for his F ups. I know football and you can point to quite few coaching moves that has the University with 2-3 more wins... If he doesn't figure it out by next year with some clear changes I'll be the first to say fire his ass. As for right now In Rod I Trust, he brings the changes this program has needed for years, Starting in the weight room.. nuff said

Mr. Meyers will be available after 2009 and that is when ND will make their move. ND is prepared to payoff CW, buyout, if even required, the Urban UF deal and outbid all comers for Urban's services. Nice to have your own TV network. This from a man who has a building named after him at a quaint small Catholic college in South Bend.